12 days left

It's November 5th. A week and a half left.

• One final tomorrow night, I'm performing a cross-examination in a trial in Family Law Litigation Practicum.
• A presentation on Thursday for International Health Law (I sort of have a topic, I just have to outline it, research, create a 30 minute presentation, and turn it into a 10-15 page paper due Nov 16).
• A final paper for Juvenile Courts due Friday, Nov 16
• A final paper for Pro Res due Monday, Nov 19
• A final paper for Crash due Friday, Nov 30

Notice a theme? Final papers. Not my thing, I'm much more of an exam person, but unfortunately it's what all my professors chose this quarter.

On a positive note, today's Juvenile Courts class today turned into a brief review discussion and a field trip next door. LALSA (latin american law students association) had asked Judge Borenstein (who I had last fall for evidence) to have a talk on "Blind Justice" and Judge Blitzman, my Juv Cts prof, thought it would be a good discussion for us to join. So instead of class, we had an hour+ of the two Judge B's talking about being public defenders and being judges, and fighting for kids and minorities and poor people and women and people of color. They may have been two old(er) white guys, but the way they look at the law gives me faith in our system. Some of my best professors - these two plus Judge Carol Ball - have been judges by day and adjuncts professors at night, and I'm pretty lucky to hear from people with so much experience.

I'm going to start posting more often - hopefully once a week or so - because I'll be headed to INDIA in 22 days!